Aaron Rajda

Consumers Energy is Michigan’s largest energy provider, providing natural gas and/or electricity to 6.8 million of the state’s 10 million residents in all 68 Lower Peninsula counties. I work with the great team at Consumers to develop and lead the implementation of a digital strategy that will transform the business and deliver the digital products and services that our customers love.

Provide strategy and technology consulting to support investment due diligence. Tappan Hill Ventures will invest where software, ubiquitous network connectivity, and the proliferation of computing devices has and will continue to disrupt and revolutionize all industry sectors. http://www.tappanhillventures.com/

Junior Achievement of Southeastern Michigan (JASEM) has been serving K-12 students in this region since 1949. Programs are delivered by corporate volunteers, community-based organizations, and educators. Lessons align with State of Michigan educational standards and are designed to provide relevant experiences and knowledge needed for vocational and personal success. Junior Achievement firmly believes in the power and influence caring adults can provide to the youth we serve.

Based in Detroit, Michigan and reporting to the Chief Enterprise Technology Officer. Lead all software delivery in support of global marketing, sales, and service functions including e-commerce, digital retail, and omni-channel customer and dealer experiences. Direct responsibility for an annual budget of over $450 M and a global team of almost 2000 employees. - Delivered all-new Ford.com customer experience enabling the end-to-end purchase experience for vehicles, parts, and accessories. - Delivered a new technology platform used by customers and Ford dealers to simplify the scheduling and management of vehicle service appointments

Based in Köln, Germany and reporting to the Chief Information Officer. Led the delivery of all IT-related capability for the Ford of Europe business. Additional global IT responsibilities included leading IT services delivery from the Ford Business Service center in Chennai, India and software product delivery for global Human Resources and Ford Land operating activities. Direct responsibility for an annual budget of over $350 M and a global team of almost 1200 employees. - Significantly restructured the European IT organization to enable a Ford of Europe business transformation which resulted in lower cost while improving quality - Delivered new global HR self-service platform to improve employee experience and enable HR to more efficiently deliver services

Based in Detroit, Michigan and reporting to the Senior IT Director for Marketing, Sales, and Service. Led the transformation of Ford’s global technology organization into product focused teams leveraging modern software engineering practices and agile delivery methods while also delivering technology products and services to Ford’s global customer service organization. Direct responsibility for an annual budget of over $200 M and a global team of almost 800 employees. - Designed and led the agile transformation program that affected over 10,000 technology employees across the enterprise and resulted in increased software delivery speed and improved quality.

Based in Detroit, Michigan and reporting to the Senior IT Director for Application Development. Led all software and technology product delivery to support the Global Marketing, Sales and Service organization. Founded the FordLabs organization – a specialized high-performance software product organization focused on building mobile and cloud-based software using modern software engineering methods to support Ford’s connected vehicle strategies. Direct responsibility for an annual budget of over $200 M and a global team of almost 1200 employees. - Founded FordLabs organization. Established new development center in Ann Arbor, MI and onboarded team members to deliver modern software and enable new markets and revenue opportunities for Ford.

Based in Detroit, Michigan and reporting to the Senior IT Director for Connected Vehicles. Led the delivery of software for Connected Vehicle and Connected Consumer strategies as well as the Global Marketing and Sales digital retail strategy to deliver key growth objectives. Managed compliance with regional privacy and protection regulations. Direct responsibility for an annual budget of approximately $200 M and a global team of almost 1000 employees. - Served as the Executive Sponsor with a key technology supplier partner to enable Ford to adopt industry-leading cloud software platform capabilities and deliver new connected vehicle capabilities.

Based in Detroit, Michigan and reporting to the Senior IT Director for Global IT Operations. Led all IT operations functions including enterprise data center hosting and storage, distributed computing, global network (WAN, LAN, and Extranet), enterprise application support, and global IT Service Desk and Operations Control functions. Oversaw disaster recovery environment and preparedness for critical infrastructure systems. Direct responsibility for an annual budget of approximately $335 M and a global team of almost 3000 employees. - Identified and implemented actions to achieve over $11M in year-over-year cost efficiencies while ensuring support for a rapidly growing global application and infrastructure portfolio. - Successfully led the integration and change management efforts to consolidate infrastructure operations, application support organization, and IT Service Desk functions into one integrated operations organization.

Based in Detroit, Michigan and reporting to the IT Director for Enterprise Programs. Led the delivery of several multi-year enterprise-wide infrastructure programs. Direct responsibility for an annual budget of approximately $150 M and a global team of almost 300 employees. - Delivered a global corporate data center consolidation and global network improvement initiative completed over three years that resulted in significant cost reduction and efficiency gains. - Led the global deployment of personal productivity and collaboration tools which better enabled employee mobility and improved workforce productivity.

Led a team of 35 employees managing an IT application and project portfolio that included key global business functions including Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Office of the General Counsel, Labor Affairs, and several smaller staff functions.

Managed a team with responsibility for supporting several key areas of the HR function in order to support current/future state process design and provide project management expertise for several high-priority HR initiatives.

Led interactive media development projects supporting clients of the Detroit office of The Y&R Group. Clients included MGM Grand Detroit Casino, The Salvation Army, Detroit Edison, and Ford Motor Company.

Managed and supported client engagements involving the implementation of technology solutions leveraging custom-developed and commercial software packages to deliver on-line business solutions.